Inside AI Policy

November 19, 2025

Trump rallies for state AI moratorium as online debate intensifies within GOP

By Charlie Mitchell / November 19, 2025

President Trump has firmly pressed his thumb on the scale in favor of a moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence, as supporters and opponents advance their arguments on social media and internal disagreement continues among Republicans.

Trump in a Nov. 18 Truth Social post said:

Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the ‘HOTTEST’ in the World, but overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Major Growth ‘Engine.’ Some States are even trying

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